Many inflation targeting central banks are facing calls to expand their list of policy goals. I discuss how recent …

negatively correlated with inflation and inflation variance across countries. But the cross-country approach has been criticised … economy, higher output and somewhat lower inflation. We also investigate the interaction between the central bank and the …

independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country's inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …

inflation targeter early in this period but began to pay less attention to inflation after 2009. Loss of the strong nominal …

recently adopted inflation targets. Some significant shifts in the conduct of monetary policy are detected in the G3 countries …, especially in the US A and Japan. In contrast with popular wisdom, it is only since the 1990s that policies in these countries … begin to look consistent with an inflation-targeting regime. In addition, the introduction of inflation targeting and …